[Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)

[Alessandro Vozza]

Thank you all, we’ll make sure to test this and report back.

One question, how to pass that array to cinder/manifests/backends.pp manifest? Something like:

CinderEnabledBackends: ‘netapp’,’rbd’

?



> On 10 Nov 2015, at 11:33, Marius Cornea <mcornea at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Adding the list.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Yogev Rabl" <yrabl at redhat.com>
>> To: "Marius Cornea" <mcornea at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:11:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> If you're testing whether the second back end is ready for use, check the
>> parameter enabled_backends in /etc/cinder/cinder.conf, its values are the
>> section name of each back end.
>> In addition, check whether a type was created for the second back end with
>> the command
>> # cinder extra-specs-list
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Marius Cornea <mcornea at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Alessandro,
>>> 
>>> Here are the steps for configuring Netapp as Cinder backend:
>>> 
>>> https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack-m/rdo-manager-docs/liberty/advanced_deployment/cinder_netapp.html
>>> 
>>> For deploying it together with Ceph I'd use the same steps for
>>> /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/puppet-ceph-external.yaml
>>> and then deploy the overcloud by passing both the cinder-netapp-config.yaml
>>> and puppet-ceph-external.yaml environment files:
>>> 
>>> openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e ~/cinder-netapp-config.yaml -e
>>> ~/puppet-ceph-external.yaml
>>> 
>>> I haven't tried this scenario myself but it would be great to get some
>>> feedback on it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Marius
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Alessandro Vozza" <alessandro at namecheap.com>
>>>> To: "rdo-list" <rdo-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:32:39 PM
>>>> Subject: [Rdo-list] Cinder multi-backend (NetApp)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> HI list
>>>> 
>>>> how would you go about implementing multi backends in cinder via
>>>> tripleo-templates? I know that upstream puppet modules supports it, but
>>> how
>>>> to specify a second backend (in particular, a NetApp+Ceph deployment)?
>>> Any
>>>> hint appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> P.S.
>>>> 
>>>> I did find
>>>> 
>>> https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/master/environments/cinder-netapp-config.yaml
>>>> , but hot to enable dual backends?)
>>>> 
>>>> 
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